Trustees, Board of Directors & Staff

Experience: Museum Exhibition Designer and Creative Director: for redevelopment of the WW1, WW2 and Post 1945 Conflicts at the Australian War Memorial, Treasures Gallery at the National Library, Canberra, Immigration Museum Melbourne, National Museum, Canberra and regional museums around Australia and internationally in both Asia and Europe. Forty years’ experience in running a commercial design practice in Victoria.

Board member since 2016. Previously member of Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum Committee of Management prior to incorporation, elected 2014, re-elected 2017.

Experience: Head of litigation team, Robertson Hyetts Solicitors. Admitted to practice in 1982. Involvement in corporate governance in non-profit organisations including advising the Bendigo Art Gallery and Foundation and Trustees. A former president of the Bendigo Law Association. Mediation accreditation from Bond University, and an arbiter under the Local Government Act. Also on a local football committee, and a board member of Sun RFCS, a rural financial counselling service based in Mildura and Bendigo.

Board member since 2016. Previously member of Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum Committee of Management prior to incorporation, elected 2014.

Experience: A trusted governance professional with local and international blue-chip company experience and Not-for-Profit director experience. Senior management roles in Australia Post and NAB (Head of Taxation, Australia); professional practice experience at Corrs Chambers Westgarth and Coopers & Lybrand; ATO.

Experience: Currently Professor of Art (Practice-led research), School of Art & Design, ANU; consultant to Te Papa Museum, New Zealand; freelance curator. Director, Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne, 2000–13; Lecturer in Contemporary Art, Art, the University of Melbourne, 1991–2000. Visiting Professor of Australian Studies, Harvard University, 2011–12. A member of management committees and boards at Arts Project Australia, Linden Contemporary Art space, City of Port Phillip, National Gallery of Victoria, Samstag Museum University of South Australia.

Experience: Currently Associate Professor, Visual Arts, School of Humanities & Social Sciences, La Trobe University; Associate Professor, Art History and Theory, Faculty of Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, 2010-2017; Associate Dean of Research and Learning and Teaching, Faculty of Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, 2012-2016; freelance art writer; member of art journal editorial committees including AAANZ Journal of Art, eyeline magazine, RealTime, Broadsheet, 1994-2018; member of boards of arts organisations Artspace and Australian Centre for Photography, 1993-2000.